Microsoft® Office Visio® 2003 Inside Out

Changing the Position of a Shape’s Text

When you want to control the precise location of text with respect to a shape, you can rotate, size, and even move a shape’s text block. A text block can appear anywhere. When you create a new shape, its text block is set to the same size as the shape, but that’s not always the best location for text. In fact, in many Visio shapes, the text block appears below or beside the shape like a label. If shapes are crowded on a page, you can move text blocks to make labels more legible or rotate text used as an annotation. When you need to make text more readable and setting the margins isn’t enough, it makes sense to move or resize the text block, as Figure 4-23 shows.

Figure 4-23. By selecting these shapes with ...